PROJECTED LIGHTNING LINES
Lines from Saturday's game in New Jersey. Subject to change. The Lightning did not have a morning skate on Sunday.
Forwards
Ondrej Palat
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Steven Stamkos
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Jonathan Drouin
Alex Killorn
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Tyler Johnson
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Vladislav Namestnikov
Cory Conacher -
Valtteri Filppula
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Brayden Point
Cedric Paquette
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Brian Boyle
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JT Brown
and Ryan Callahan getting work in
Defense
Victor Hedman
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Anton Stralman
Jason Garrison
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Andrej Sustr
Braydon Coburn
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Nikita Nesterov
Goalie
Ben Bishop or Andrei Vasilevskiy
TONIGHT'S MATCHUP
Tonight, the Lightning are playing their first of three games against the New York Rangers (and first of two games at Madison Square Garden) in 2016-17...Tampa Bay went 1-2-0 against the Rangers last season and fell 3-2 in its only game at New York, ending a threegame win streak for the Bolts at MSG...The Bolts have lost two straight to the Rangers after winning the previous five in a row in the regular season, including all three regular season meetings in 2014-15...The Lightning outscored the Rangers 4-1 in the first periods of the three meetings last season but were outscored 6-1 in third periods...Tampa Bay is 20-23-2 with two ties all time against the Rangers at MSG in the regular season...The Lightning are 42-41-4 with five ties all-time overall in the regular season against the Rangers.
TONIGHT'S STORYLINES
The Lightning are playing the second half of a back-to-back set, their first of 16 back-to-backs this season...The Bolts went 5-6-2 in the second game of a back-to-back set last season...Tampa Bay is playing its fifth game of a six game road trip (tied for the longest road trip of the season) and is in the middle of a stretch of three games in four days...The Lightning failed to score in the first period against New Jersey, the seventh time in eight games they haven't scored a first-period goal...The Bolts have scored just three first-period goals this season (all coming Oct. 25 at TOR), tied for second least in the NHL...Conversely, the Lightning are tied for second in the league with Minnesota and behind Montreal (17) for third-period goals.
INJURIES
2016-17 Regular Season Man Games Lost: 9
Current injuries
Nikita Kucherov - Upper-body injury October 27 (day-to-day) 1
Ryan Callahan
- Hip surgery June 21 to repair labral tear in right hip (OUT 5 MONTHS FROM SURGERY DATE) 8
TRANSACTIONS
Oct. 30 - Assigned F Cory Conacher to AHL Syracuse
Oct. 28 - Recalled F Cory Conacher from AHL Syracuse
KILLING IT
Bolts forward Alex Killorn has scored a goal in six of eight games this season...Killorn is tied for first in the NHL for goals...Dating back to last postseason, Killorn has recorded at least a point in eight of his last 12 games (7 goals, 3 assists)...It took Killorn just seven games to reach six goals this season; his previous high for least amount of games to start season to reach six goals was 14 games in 2014-15
